Stress and Food Choice: A Laboratory Study

By Georgina Oliver, J. Wardle, E. Gibson. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Food Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Consumer style and health: The role of impulsive buying in unhealthy eating (2005, methodology): “For example, in a carefully designed and conducted laboratory experiment, Oliver, Wardle, and Gibson (2000) found that among emotional eaters (i.e., people with a general tendency to eat more when anxious or emotionally aroused), stress increased the intake of fatty and sweet snacks, while no such…”
Exploring influences on food choice in a large population sample: The Italian Taste project (2017, positive): “…of sugar-sweetened soft drinks was associated with less restrained and more external eating in adults (Elfhag, Tynelius, & Rasmussen, 2007), and Oliver, Wardle, and Gibson (2000) reported that emotional eaters consume more sweet, high-fat foods in response to emotional stress than did…”
Emotional influences on food choice: sensory, physiological and psychological pathways. (2006, methodology): “When separate scales were used to measure restraint and emotional eating (Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire, [85]), the latter was the better predictor of stressinduced eating [86].”
Stress, eating and the reward system. (2007, background): “In another study, emotional eating but not restraint was related to an increase in intake of sweet fatty foods after stress [64].”
Stress influences appetite and comfort food preferences in college women (2006, background): “Several studies have found that when under stress, an increase in fat consumption [11,12] and a tendency to eat more sweet foods occurs [4,8,10].”
Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? (2008, background): “Work stress is associated with smoking and exercise,(25) whereas fatty food intake increases under stressful conditions.(26) Work stress has also been linked with problem drinking, although in this cohort, non-drinkers had the highest risk of CHD (and were more likely to report work stress).”
Elaborated Intrusion Theory: A Cognitive-Emotional Theory of Food Craving (2012, positive): “Short-term stress does not alter overall intake or appetite, but stressed ‘emotional eaters’ eat more sweet high-fat foods and a more energy-dense meal than unstressed and nonemotional eaters 61 .”
Stress and emotional eating: The mediating role of eating dysregulation (2014, background): “laboratory stress-induction manipulation showed that exposure to stress was associated with food consumption (Oliver et al., 2000).”
The Health Benefits of Yoga and Exercise: A Review of Comparison Studies (2010, positive): “64,65 As yoga seems to provide many of the beneﬁts typically associated with exercise and also strongly inﬂuences the SNS = HPA axis response to stress, it is possible that yoga might be a particularly useful weapon in the arsenal against obesity.”